Jessica Mauerhan
Staff Software Engineer at GameChanger
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Mauerhan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, maintainable backend systems and leading engineering teams from startup to scale. She specializes in PHP/MySQL while also shipping serverless JS, GraphQL, and CI/CD improvements, and recently reduced p95 backend latency from 1700ms to under 300ms at Tango. A longtime advocate for test automation and TDD, she has contributed QA-focused test suites to notable open-source projects like ramsey/uuid. Jessica excels at mentoring and developer productivity—she built tooling that cut new-developer onboarding time from days to hours—and has led large efforts to migrate legacy monoliths to event-driven microservices and support internationalization. Based in Raleigh, NC, she combines hands-on execution with cross-functional leadership and a knack for turning operational pain points into durable developer tools.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
php, javascript, jquery, mysql, cucumber, mssql, postgresql, html, css, bash scripting, vuejs
Stackoverflow
7,050reputation
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273answers
18questions
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Github Skills (14)
uuid10
php10
phpunit10
testing10
mysql9
pdo9
code-injection6
html6
wordpress6
mysqli6
sql6
jquery6
symfony6
traits6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ramsey/uuid
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
:snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to testing efforts within the project. Their commits include adding and modifying test cases, specifically related to PECL UUID extensions and other generator components. The changes involve writing tests for random and time-based UUID generation, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the library's functionality and correctness. They also updated tests to use mocks and clean up test files.
unique-identifiersuuid-generatoruidnanoidulid
FeatureBrowser/FeatureBrowser
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
A tool that parses your Behat .feature files and turns them alchemy-like into an interactive user manual
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 70 pushes in 11 months
behatuser-manualmanualalchemyturns
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